51.   Faced with that gloomy assessment, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright challenged European governments Saturday to stay united in face of the deteriorating situation in Kosovo.

52.   Foreign Minister Yohei Kono voiced strong concern Monday over the rapidly deteriorating situation in Bosnia where Serb forces have tightened their grip on the U.N. peacekeeping mission.

53.   Georgian border police went on alert Saturday over the deteriorating situation in the Ghali region of breakaway Abkhazia, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.

54.   Hammer blamed Hezbollah for the deteriorating situation, saying it was trying to create tensions and prevent progress toward an agreement.

55.   He also said his country and Japan have stepped up their dialogue over the deteriorating situation in East Timor.

56.   He also said the Albanian ambassador to the United Nations met Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday to brief him on the deteriorating situation in his country.

57.   He cited a report by Secretary-General Kofi Annan which concluded that the U.N. relief program could not put an end to the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Iraq.

58.   In a letter to the Security Council, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali warned of the deteriorating situation and urged a renewal of diplomatic efforts to defuse tensions.

59.   In Budapest, Canada and its allies plan to take stock of the deteriorating situation and consider what future role peacekeepers can play as ethnic fighting persists.

60.   In New York, the U.N. Security Council met Monday to discuss the deteriorating situation in Zaire.